Super supremo’s Cooks connection

The man stepping down as New Zealand Reserve Bank deputy governor to head the New Zealand Superannuation Fund management team brings pride to his Cook Islands family.
In Taupo, where Adrian Orr once drove trucks for a living, local iwi Tuwharetoa regard him as one of the family. But so do people in the Cook Islands, from where his grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the 1930s, Auckland’s Herald on Sunday reported.
Orr has been known to treat dinner guests to kai cooked in his backyard hangi pit, the newspaper said.
Before joining the Reserve Bank, he was chief economist at Westpac and the National Bank. He has been tipped as a future Reserve Bank governor.

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